[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-28816) [patch] BuildSystem: Remove doc/tex and doc/pdf leftovers.

[Alexander Traud (JIRA)]

Alexander Traud created ASTERISK-28816:
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             Summary: [patch] BuildSystem: Remove doc/tex and doc/pdf leftovers.
                 Key: ASTERISK-28816
                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28816
             Project: Asterisk
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: None
          Components: Core/BuildSystem, Documentation
    Affects Versions: 17.3.0, 16.9.0, 13.32.0
            Reporter: Alexander Traud
            Severity: Trivial


In November 2010 for Asterisk 10, revision [294740|https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/893ca656af419e58c8dd675274d4a4d59b22cc03] changed how the documentation is created. Because of that, three binary utilities _rubber_, _catdvi_, and _kpsewhich_ are not required anymore. However, even today, the script {{./configure}} searches for those tools. The attached patch removes them.

In April 2006 for Asterisk 1.4, when the new build system was [introduced|https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/blame/f824cd6a13ee69a1c9d56380557e0ade56141d41/configure.ac], several binary utilities were searched for. One of those is _compress_ which was never used in the Asterisk project. Perhaps the authors of that change scanned the whole source code and found a reference in the Makefile for the audio codec GSM. However, the target _dist_ which references that tool, is not used in the Asterisk project; that was just for distribution of that library itself.

There are more tools which are not referenced as {{$(prog)}} in the Makefile and scripts correctly. However, those four utilities are open—not found—after the user ran the script {{./contrib/scripts/install_prereq}} on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, for example. Not to confuse the user, (just) those four utilities are removed.

Now, everything in the script {{./configure}} is satisfied, except for alternatives (like wget|curl, xmllint|xmlstarlet), Git, [Alembic|https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org], and [SoX|http://sox.sourceforge.net]. The latter is used in the now deprecated module _res_monitor_. Git is contributor centric and therefore not a requisite for a normal user of Asterisk. Alembic is not required to build a module.



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